Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman had been President only a few days when he was rubbed the wrong way by a time-honored White House custom: he got stuck between floors in its creaky elevator. Ever since Theodore Roosevelt had it installed in 1902 (his rollicking sons used it to haul their patient pony Algonquin to & from their quarters). U.S. Presidents had frequently been stalled in the ornate mirrored and oak-paneled cage. The only power a President had in that emergency was to ring a gong, then wait while workmen hurried to the basement and jiggled the rachitic machinery back into motion...
Every corner of the world would be affected by the Labor Party's success or failure. All men, therefore, had a right to sit in judgment on the Labor Party; but the clearest right and the highest competence to judge was that of the wise, patient and perceptive British electorate, which had placed its lives and its liberties in Labor's hands...
Many middle-class housewives had turned against Labor. Bread-rationing riots in Ulster last week were extreme symptoms of the dissatisfaction. Men were generally more patient, but they railed against the shortage of beer. Thirsty Britons organized and sent bicycle scouts into the countryside in search of still wet pubs; whenever one was found, word went back by carrier pigeons to friends who sped to the scene...
...bills, no minor item, out of his own budget. Additional financial burdens forced on the bedridden undergraduate include a special fee for all services at Stillman beyond a certain short stay (which is covered by the $15 semester medical fee) and the expense of all medicinals used by the patient while on out-patient treatment. Unlike many colleges, Harvard has no pharmacy and must rely on commercial apothecaries for calomel and cough medicine...
...many women by 1) starting to dispel their fears and ignorance soon after they become pregnant, 2) teaching them in advance how to relax and make the child come easily, 3) giving them close, sympathetic attention during the early stages of labor, when many doctors and nurses abandon the patient to a lonely state of terror and pain...